Culture of Terrorism

By Noam Chomsky

Chomsky ends his preface to Culture of Terrorism with the words, “As the latest inheritors of a grim tradition, we should at least have the integrity to look in the mirror without evasion”. The tradition to which he is referring is none other than the Western imperial project and in encouraging Americans to pursue integrity, he dissects the events of just one year – 1986 – at the height of the Reagan Era and describes American involvement in acts of supreme state terror, both open and clandestine, to present a case study which has great relevance today and whose lessons must never be forgotten.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Release date: Sep 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781783712410

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona.